The Way of All Flesh
$38.34
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 December 1998
Summary
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
“The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature,” said V. S. Pritchett. “One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler’s desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel.”
Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler’s death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375752490 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375752498 |
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 December 1998 |
| Weight: | 371g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
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About The Author
Samuel Butler
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902), the freethinking iconoclast whom George Bernard Shaw deemed “the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century,” also satirized Victorian society in Erewhon (1872) and Erewhon Revisited (1901). His work strongly influenced such writers as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and James Joyce.
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